23 days remaining to apply

  • Job start date

    3 February 2025

  • Closing date

    19 January 2025 at 11:59pm

  • Date listed

    24 December 2024

Job details

Job role

  • Other support roles

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Full time: 37 hours per week Term Time plus 2 weeks

Contract type

Fixed term - August 2025

Full-time equivalent salary

£30,599 to £33,366 per annum (Pro rata £26,994.11 to £29,435.13 per annum)

What skills and experience we're looking for

Who we’re looking for

We’re looking for a dedicated individual to provide tailored support to our pupils. You will be committed to making a positive difference to young people’s lives and in supporting and developing their learning. Your intervention will help enable an outstanding learning environment for our young people, providing the support they need to succeed.

The successful candidate will be a committed team player with excellent organisational and technical skills. You will have the ability to effectively support learning and teaching, and to develop relationships across our school and the Star community.

You will have:

  • Level 4 qualification in SEND (or related discipline).
  • Experience of working with children in a secondary school or other setting.
  • Experience of supporting children with special educational needs and/or Disabilities (SEND).
  • The ability to maintain positive relationships with students, parents and staff.
  • The ability to work effectively within a team.

What the school offers its staff

About Laisterdyke Leadership Academy

Laisterdyke Leadership Academy is a secondary school for 11 to 18 year olds in Bradford. We joined Star Academies in 2016 and, like all Star schools, we have a leadership specialism.

The school was rated ‘good’ in all four areas of the inspection framework during its inspection in January 2023.

We are an ambitious school with high expectations for all of our pupils. We provide a knowledge-based academic curriculum alongside a rich and diverse leadership programme that grows character and inspires charitable and social action. Our pursuit of educational excellence is based upon our fundamental belief that every pupil has the capacity to become a successful and inspirational leader.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

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About Laisterdyke Leadership Academy

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 18
Education phase
Secondary
School size
873 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 18
Phone number
01274 454 400

Laisterdyke Leadership Academy in Bradford, West Yorkshire is a 1200 place, 11-18 secondary school and sixth form. Laisterdyke joined the Trust on 1 April 2016. Like all Star schools, it has “Leadership” as a specialism.

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